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Who were these men that stormed into daoud's home? and why would they go to such horrifying lengths to cover up their actions? >> the elite force created in 1980 as an elite hostage rescue team has grown under the bush and obama administrations, jsoc members now number close to 25,000, operating in over 75 countries with an annual budget of o'er approximately $8 billion. the release of the film comes weeks after president obama defended his administration's counterterrorism strategy in a speech last month. >> america's actions are legal. we are at war with an organization that right now would ...

The balance we strike between interest of security and our value of privacy. in some cases i believe we compromised our basic values by using torture to interrogate our enemies and detaining individuals in a way that ran counter to the rule of law. so after i took office we stepped up the war against al qaeda but we also sought to change its course. we relentlessly targeted al qaeda's leadership. we ended the war in iraq and brought nearly 150,000 troops home. we pursued a new strategy in afghanistan and increased our training of afghan forces. we unequivocally ban editor chur, civilian courts...

To terrorism at the world trade center and our military facilities in saudi arabia and in our embassy in kenya. these attacks were all brutal, they were all deadly, and we learned that, left unchecked, these threats can grow. but if dealt with smartly and proportional, these threats need not rise to the level that we saw on the eve of 9/11. moreover, we have to recognize that these threats don't arrive in a vacuum. most, though not all, of the terrorism that we face is fueled by a common ideology, belief by some extremists that islamist conflict with the united states and the west and that vio...

Confront it. these questions matter to every american. for over the last decade our nation has spent well over a trillion dollars on war helping to explode our deficits and constrain our rebuilding here at home. our service members and families have sacrificed far more on our behalf. nearly 7,000 americans have made the ultimate sacrifice. many more have left a part of themselves on the battlefield or brought the shat shadowdows of back home. from our use of drones to the detention of terrorist us zsusp, the decisions that we are making now will define the type of nation and world that we leav...

Through the cold war. battlefields have changed and technology has evolved, but our commitment to constitutional principles as weathered every war, and every war has come to an end. with the collapse of the berlin wall, a new dawn of democracy took hold abroad. and a decade of peace and prosperity arrived here at home for a moment it seemed the 21st century would be a tranquil time. then on september 11th, 2001, we were shaken out of complacency. thousands were taken from us as clouds of fire and metal and ash descended upon a sun-filled morning. this was a different kind of war. no armies cam...